Thursday, 12 April 2007
getting over...what?
Thought of the day: Life is confusing. If things aren't confusing, then you're not thinking enough. But then, how can this supposedly simple explanation of life in general be true? It is because it's only simple if you don't think about it.
It's easy to get over physical things. A fence, for example, you only need to jump. A broken glass? It's okay, it's not important. It's only when we attatch emotions to physical things that we start to have issues. Why are these issues so hard? Because it's impossible to Not attatch feelings towards physical things. No matter how zen you are, at some stage, you're attatched to this physical world and all the childhood toys, monetary assets and dare i say people in it.
At the moment, i'm realising just how many things i've becoming attatched to. and considering i used to have a i-am-independant mentality about my life, this is of some concern.
Take this blog for example; i have sadly become attatched to this. If i lost this, it would matter to me. Is this really sad? Perhaps, but only to a person who does not understand why it matters to me, or to a person who is not attatched to something similar themselves.
So then, when is it wrong to be attatched to something? And i don't mean in a religious sort of way. I'm not talking about nirvana or preta ghosts here. When is it wrong to be attatched to a thing or a person?
Only when other people do not understand is it wrong. Does the clarity of many outweigh the clarity of the individual? Hm.
A lot of this is rantage. I'm sorry. might be my cold and flu head. ahwell.
(2 days and counting and i still have the cold. eek)
It's easy to get over physical things. A fence, for example, you only need to jump. A broken glass? It's okay, it's not important. It's only when we attatch emotions to physical things that we start to have issues. Why are these issues so hard? Because it's impossible to Not attatch feelings towards physical things. No matter how zen you are, at some stage, you're attatched to this physical world and all the childhood toys, monetary assets and dare i say people in it.
At the moment, i'm realising just how many things i've becoming attatched to. and considering i used to have a i-am-independant mentality about my life, this is of some concern.
Take this blog for example; i have sadly become attatched to this. If i lost this, it would matter to me. Is this really sad? Perhaps, but only to a person who does not understand why it matters to me, or to a person who is not attatched to something similar themselves.
So then, when is it wrong to be attatched to something? And i don't mean in a religious sort of way. I'm not talking about nirvana or preta ghosts here. When is it wrong to be attatched to a thing or a person?
Only when other people do not understand is it wrong. Does the clarity of many outweigh the clarity of the individual? Hm.
A lot of this is rantage. I'm sorry. might be my cold and flu head. ahwell.
(2 days and counting and i still have the cold. eek)
# posted by Hil : Thursday, April 12, 2007
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It is never wrong to be attached to something or someone. It is why we live.... connectedness.
The things or people we choose to attach ourselves to determine who we are as individuals.
Choose wisely. Actually, that's advice I should heed myself.
The things or people we choose to attach ourselves to determine who we are as individuals.
Choose wisely. Actually, that's advice I should heed myself.
I think its only wrong to attach yourself to something if it gives you nothing back. If you love someone and they don't love you back, wrong move.
So as long as expressing yourself through your blog (which I have found very empowering) is giving you something in return its not wrong to be attached to it.
...I'm gonna go tell my blog I've got a man crush on it..
So as long as expressing yourself through your blog (which I have found very empowering) is giving you something in return its not wrong to be attached to it.
...I'm gonna go tell my blog I've got a man crush on it..
# posted by 
: 2:34 pm
: 2:34 pm
"If i lost this, it would matter to me"
it would matter to me too... kurt vonnegut, my favourite author, who i mentioned in a comment a few posts of yours back, died last night... i've still got a few more stories long since published to get out of him, but there's now a definite limit... i love what you have to say, and to lose your poems and random everyday thoughts, i'd have nothing new left to stimulate my mind, and i would be deeply saddened...
aplologies if that didn't make sense or if there were blatant spelling errors, i'm a little (read: quite a bit) intoxicated at the moment (but i think i did alright, just the same)...
take care hil, and don't fret about being attached to a few material things... it's only evidence that you're human... hell, it's evidence that you're alive at all, no matter what species...
~Mike
it would matter to me too... kurt vonnegut, my favourite author, who i mentioned in a comment a few posts of yours back, died last night... i've still got a few more stories long since published to get out of him, but there's now a definite limit... i love what you have to say, and to lose your poems and random everyday thoughts, i'd have nothing new left to stimulate my mind, and i would be deeply saddened...
aplologies if that didn't make sense or if there were blatant spelling errors, i'm a little (read: quite a bit) intoxicated at the moment (but i think i did alright, just the same)...
take care hil, and don't fret about being attached to a few material things... it's only evidence that you're human... hell, it's evidence that you're alive at all, no matter what species...
~Mike
its ok attach yourself to everything that makes you and others around you feel better. That way eventually you will feel better
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